Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a New York Times-bestselling author for his first book, Friday
Black. Originally from Spring Valley, New York, he graduated from SUNY Albany and went on
to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from
numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Literary Hub, The
Paris Review, Guernica, and Longreads. He was selected by Colson Whitehead as one of the
National Book Foundation's “5 Under 35” honorees, is the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book
Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First
Book and the Aspen Words Literary Prize.
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